3 thoughts on “Sarah May Shoop (Baker)”

1. George I started to school the same year, 1897, to Mountain Home School, Pennsylvania. He was six and I was almost 5. My sister Edna started then too, and being the only two children at that time, I wanted to go , so my Mother let me go. Our teacher’s name was Sam Strayer. He was never married. He lived with his mother . Me being the youngest of the girls , they all seen after me. There was boys and girls from my age to eighteen went in a one room school house. It had a potbelly stove and a water bucket with a tin to drink water from. The kids played games and in the fall they would go at recess and dinner time to the mountain to get walnuts and chestnuts , and in the winter they would bring their sleds and had fun on the big hill at the school.

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2. The winter I was twelve there was revival meetings at the church. Rev. C. 0. Berry was the minister. Edna and me and two neighbors, a girl and a boy, were baptized. It was February, a heavy ice on the river. They cut a square of ice out for us four to be baptized. That is how it was in those days. No one took a cold. We trusted the Lord and He always takes care of his children when they ask Him.

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